...It's also time to initiate discussions about what a journal should look like five, twenty, or fifty years from now, and what it means to move that journal from print to electronic. The emerging open-access, digital model could eventually save at least some (if not many) members of an endangered genre, given the fragile economics of most small journals, which are further endangered by the recent postal hikes that privilege corporate publishers at the expense of the small press. But even then, this has to be done in partnership with publishers and readers....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/02/2007 11:33:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
